WATCH NOW A suitable title for Amir Naderi, the filmmaker, can be A Cinema of Ecstatic Vision. Naderi is a true original, as no other director on this side of Martin Scorsese seems as deeply enamored with movies or captivated by their kinetic potential. He was born in Iran and was a vital part of […]
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Junction 48 is an Israeli movie on drama that features Tamer Nafar, the lead singer of the rap group DAM, as Kareem who is a rap artist. The story revolves around Kareem’s dream to become a famous rap artist in a mixed Jewish and Palestinian city called Lod which lies close to Tel Aviv. Manar,
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WATCH NOW In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for setting a fire that killed his three kids in 1991. In “Trial by Fire” published ten years ago, Grann attempts to uncover the poorly conducted investigation, the appeals, his lack of confession, alongside the trial that was shoved down his throat. The very article had
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WATCH NOW “Who is Cletis Tout” is one of those movies with a plot so labyrinthine you think you should be taking notes and then you realize you are. Like “The Usual Suspects,” it circles around the verbal description of events that are seen in flashbacks and may or may not be trustworthy. The difference
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WATCH NOW There’s a common belief that the German poet Goethe would give Shakespeare a run for his money if the title of “Greatest Writer Ever” were to be awarded. Goethe’s most relevant piece of art, and still discussed today, is the tragic play Faust. How does Faust relate to British filmmaker Kemal Yildirin’s Shades
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WATCH NOW Nouveau Noir, I get it, but who killed Edgar Williams? This is what his young thorough documentary filmmaker nephew needs to find out. Considering he has been dead for quite a while now, coming up with clues is going to be a challenge. Creepily enough, someone has started leaving flowers on his grave.
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WATCH NOW Cinema itself started with the western genre of film from 1903’s The Great Train Robbery. This is often considered the first film that attempted to tell a fictitious story and most scholars agree on this. One other thing Australia is not missing out on are the art of rugged outdoors people and its
WATCH NOW Most people envision the same thing when French cinema brings up some weird drama with nonsensical storylines, where everyone seems to have a cropped haircut and stares into nothingness, deep in thought. Perhaps not as famous is exploitation cinema. It comes with Zombies, torture, skinning, and all the weird things that those of
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WATCH NOW The synopsis of Dead Drop, guarantees hard-boiled, crime-filled action, and while it indeed gives some good action, it constrainds to a scenerio where pacing is prioritised over display making it look quite uninteresting at moments. It’s about ex-CIA official Michael Shaughnessy (Luke Goss), who happens to be inside a moving plane. 3000 miles
WATCH NOW Over two decades ago, I remember planning my first trip to Europe, which was the Republic of Ireland with the United Kingdom. As a twenty-two-year-old girl, this tour was not really meant for me. But, my weirdly unsettling experiences with sexual harassment from men, I became greatly fascinated by Ireland. Most of Irish
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